Moviola

Over the past decade, Moviola have made six records (and split singles with everyone from The Handsome Family to Cobra Verde) in virtual anonymity in a self-built studio next to the plasma center off North High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Live appearances are rarer than hen’s teeth. An odd assortment of normal Joes from Amarillo to Amsterdam, record shop freaks, librarians who dig Kristofferson, and wayward fans of the Louvin Brothers and Spacemen 3 hold them close like a secret. And viva la difference: in this band everyone writes, everyone takes a turn singing lead. It’s a fiveheaded beast (with eleven kids between them), the result of which is a well-deep collective of dusty country-through-a-space-echo, folk-soul, and adult lullabies. East of Eager ratchets up the entire lot into a pure, uncluttered document of one of the finest bands you’re likely to hear, but, most likely, have never heard. The timeless sounds of soul, pop, country, bluegrass woven into a classic from an ever-evolving American band.